WCL has over 600,000 books, 450,000 magazines, and 85,000 cds, DVDs, videos and other items at our central library and 11 branches. We are located in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington.

Monday, 2 October 2006

Lime-green Capri pants

Among our new biographies - the private lives of Impressionists, branded lunatics by their contemporaries and celebrated by chocolate-box makers ever since; young Bill Bryson and the Sacred Jersey of Zap; how young Audrey Hepburn was discovered by Colette; Gertrude Bell (archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer and mountaineer); and the Queen Mother, who adored Margaret Thatcher and disliked Germans.